Sitting with Warrior

As a Marine Corps veteran of an unpopular and divisive war, Carl Hitchens contends that Sitting with Warrior’ chronicles not only his journey, but America’s as well. By sitting and listening to Warrior’s wisdom, he has recovered lost parts of himself. This gives America hope for stepping out of the long shadow of Vietnam that today stretches over Iraq and Afghanistan. Hope that by sitting with Warrior and his unifying truth, America can heal her old wounds. Hope that she can draw from her pluralism and diversity unity rather than division out of many, one.’ Mr. Hitchens weaves together personal history, national history, and myth into an expose on the Vietnam War, seeing it as an epoch of America’s evolving consciousness, from birth of the nation through its many transitions of giving form to its founding ideals. Inner teacher, “Warrior,” a Nanticoke warrior of the seventeenth century, shares his wisdom with his grandson, and in doing so reveals the mystery of the warrior spirit. It is by this inner-warrior that we self-actualize into this ongoing experience of life, whereby we learn, grow, and, by courage conquering self-doubt, become the noble being inside ourselves. It is this invisible being seeking objectification, through the perfecting of our human potential that we embrace our warrior nature and fight illusion with ultimate truth. We are Warrior. Warrior’s spiritual perspective on war, life, death, the meaning of existence addresses those fundamental questions of human origin and purpose. HIs view is both insightful and honoring of life lived and sacrificed in pursuit of higher meaning. Drawing on spiritual science and “warrior perspective,” he navigates the reader through the inner workings of the human condition, enfolding within it war, as an ironic outcropping of consciousness raging for fuller integration.